10 Stories That Prove Guns Save Lives

Townhall.com’s John Hawkins does it again:

In a nation that already has more than 200 million guns, gun control does little other than make the work of rapists, robbers, murderers and nuts like Adam Lanza easier. When faced with gun control laws, the law abiding citizen has no choice other than to disarm or become an outlaw, but people with bad intentions are faced with no such moral dilemma. That’s why the best friend of a rapist or a potential Adam Lanza is the gun control advocate who’s working tirelessly to insure that his targets can’t adequately defend themselves.

On some level, even diehard advocates of gun control know this, which is why they want people with guns defending them. Our police aren’t going to disarm, the military isn’t going to try to fight our enemies with non-violent protests and the White House will never become a “gun free zone.” But, what happens when the bad man with the gun is right there and the military, the police, and the President’s Secret Service aren’t on the scene? Then having a gun may be the difference between living or dying, between being raped or being okay, between saving your children or watching them die.

The hypocrites who want men with guns to protect them when they’re in trouble, but want to prevent other law abiding citizens from defending themselves love to use anecdotal evidence to make their case. Those of us who are pro-Second Amendment then usually talk about our Constitutional rights or reel off statistics to counter them, but we have our own stories. There are thousands of good and decent Americans who are alive today precisely because they had guns. Gun control advocates might think the world would be a better place if those people and the ones you’re about to read about were dead and the people menacing them had gotten away with their crimes, but those of us who are serious about our Second Amendment rights disagree.

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